Emma Pooley, (handicap 6.3) won an Olympic silver medal for cycling in the time trial in 2008 and finshed 6th in 2012 but has recently turned her attentions to running, which has resulted in a fine win at the Lausanne Marathon and a reduction in her runbritain handicap score.

Run England recently welcomed its 50,000th member and, to celebrate, tracked him down to learn about his running journey, discovering that running helps him not only to relax and keep his feet on the ground but also to improve his fitness for a very different pastime.

After the inclusion of track races from 800m and up in the runbritain handicap scoring system, it's been a while since we've had two runners of the longer distances at the top of the ladder but after running the stunning time of 17:35 for 4 miles at the weekend, Andy Vernon (handicap MINUS 6.2) has leap frogged Andrew Osagie (handicap MINUS 6.1) and Lee Emmanuel (handicap MINUS 6.0) to take second spot behind Mo Farah (handicap MINUS 6.6).